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days before, and at noon arrived at_ the occa Kinai, the petty ° 
chieftain of Ora, and found his establishment tenfold more welcome 
‘than before. We were all drenched with rain, and ina state gréatly 
to relish the luxury of a large fire, and a change of clothes, which 
our portmanteaus still fortunately afforded; and thus sheltered an 
a" we were exhilirated by the storm, when ser 
We marched again in the srideAinas | me after’ a ral, rendered 
very fatiguing by the wetness, and excessively bad state of the road 
through the wood, we found a boat in waiting for us—so that we were 
safely on board the Vincennes in time for dinner. 
Miscellaneous facts relating to Scenery, Manners, &c. Da 
It will be remembered, that the mountains of Hawaii are very 
slofiy, some of them ‘far surpassing Mont Blanc, and even emulating 
the cata Andes. Water falls are, therefore; to be expected in 
tries which abound so much with rain. Some of these were 
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by Mr. Stewart, and his party. On the river ' pauls the 
natives amused the spectators by leaping from the | recipitous banks, 
thirty, forty, and fifty feet high, into the basins t below, and gliding 
down the falls, with the greatest.apparent hazard. “One of ‘the ‘cas- 
eades resembles much the most admired sections of the Trenton falls 
on the Canada creek, in the state of New York, and similar ae 
ities have. signalized both places.* 
other cascade, one hundred ‘eal ten feet j in height, Sicha over 
a natural bridge, or rather a projecting arch, which rests upon abut- 
ments of basaltic rock forming precipices one hundred and fifty feet 
omore in height; in form sad regularity of arrangement, they are 
precisely like the Giants’ causeway, which, in a country where every 
ing appears to have been produced by fire, is a fact of great im- 
portance as to the origin of the trap rocks. ‘This cascade falas into 
ibasin of some hundreds of yards in circumference, which is as 
Placid as a lake, except where the stream plunges into it from above, 
and the silvery mass appears to be eee: from the blue hop of 
the sky} into the depths below. : 
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"A yo ung native female reaching after flowers, which grew over the precipice, 
and trusting toa branch of the tree on which they grew, was, by its breaking, 
on into the whirling eddies of the gulf below, and instantly lost. 
This appearance, so'well deséribed by Mr. Stewart, is presented in a most re- 
Markable manner on the American side of the Niagara falls ;.. when tie observer 
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